My Hometown Is Better Than Yours
Three mountain ranges, four lakes and a fucking Sound. That's a geographical feature your hometown hasn't even heard of.
The linked post's title is accurate despite the author writing about Seattle. New York is cooler than where ever it is you're from.
Jah Makin' Me Oatmeal
The Seattle Snowpocalypse has had me hibernating in my burrow. Rustam does not like playing in the snow (unless spending lots of money on riding chairlifts up a mountain and then hurtling down it at speeds just-this-side-of-"safe" is involved). Instead of going to the store, which would require leaving my apartment, I've embraced the dry goods in my pantry. In short, I've been eating lots of rice and beans, and oatmeal. I have an on again, off again relationship with the latter... delicious one minute, painfully boring the next.
Fearing cereal fatigue, I decided to sex up my bowl o' oats. My experimentation led me to draw inspiration from the Caribbean isle of Jamaica, with it's rich tradition of jerk pork (all spice and chilis), rum, and sun (raisins?).
Without further ado, the recipe of your oatmeal dreams, Jah Makin' Me Oatmeal.
In Which I Fix My Girlfriend’s Grandparents’ WiFi and Am Hailed as a Conquering Hero.
The warrior charged ahead. Weaker men would have lost their minds in the madness: telephone cords plugged into Ethernet jacks, AC adapters plugged into phone jacks, a lone VGA cable wrapped in a firm knot around an Ethernet cord. But the warrior bested the thicket, ripping away the vestigial cords and swiftly untangling the deadly trap.
And at last the warrior arrived at the Router.
"You're good with computers, right? Well, you see, when I Google 'Microsoft Word' it won't let me launch it! It used to work, I promise. Can you help???"
Jonah Lehrer on Why Ignorance Is a Democracy's Bliss
The scientists trained a large group of golden shiners, a small freshwater fish used as bait, to associate the arrival of food with a blue target. They then trained a smaller group to associate food with a yellow target, a color naturally preferred by the fish. Not surprisingly, when all the trained golden shiners were put in one aquarium, most of them swam toward the yellow dot; the stronger desires of the minority, fueled by the shiners' natural preference, persuaded the majority to follow along.
But when scientists introduced a group of fish without any color training, yellow suddenly lost its appeal. All of a sudden, the fish began following the preferences of the majority, swimming toward the blue target. "A strongly opinionated minority can dictate group choice," the scientists concluded. "But the presence of uninformed individuals spontaneously inhibits this process, returning control to the numerical majority."
This article is kind of bullshit – Lehrer brings in Hitler and the Nazis as an example of what happens if opinionated minorities control a political process. Godwin's Law applies everywhere on the internet, the Wall Street Journal included. More interesting than the somewhat feeble analysis is the referenced study.
I’m Comic Sans, Asshole.
Listen up. I know the shit you’ve been saying behind my back. You think I’m stupid. You think I’m immature. You think I’m a malformed, pathetic excuse for a font. Well think again, nerdhole, because I’m Comic Sans, and I’m the best thing to happen to typography since Johannes fucking Gutenberg.
Helvetica is to Hipster as Comic Sans is to ???
Mulleted drunk at the bar?
